The sale of Alaska to the United States triggered a ... utilize the northwest coast was in prosecution of the fur trade. But that trade has declined and nearly run out by the destruction of ...

Since the fur trade was the second-largest industry in Alaska at that time, the decision was made in 1937 to combine the ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...